TIRANA, September 22 – Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku confessed in Thursday’s deliberations of the Assembly that hackers have been in the Albanian systems for 14 months and that they have been invisible and their goal has been to delete any data. But she boasted that this was not achieved.
According to Balluku, it was impossible for Albania to withstand the well-organized attack from four different sources.
“The unprecedented attack was aimed at erasing data, it started as an attack to get data and trade them, but then it was transformed into an attack that should be zero cleared,” said the Minister.
“We will start to reflect and invest in cyber security. They stayed in our systems for 14 months, but they were in shadow mode, they were invisible. We do not have advanced systems, we were not prepared for an attack of this level,” she said.
In his reaction DP deputy Ervin Salianji said that Albania’s pants have fallen down.
“I am glad that the deputy prime minister refutes the prime minister in this forum. First, when you are offered what you want from the opposition, you cannot say what. We are demanding that those who were responsible be held accountable. There is no question that the aggression is against NATO countries and in the region. Kosovo has recently coped with it. Estonia has had an attack, but the hackers could not receive the data. No other country has had its pants down like Albania. The government has not even made transparency today. The organized attack cannot be sustained with ungrounded responses,” said Salianji. /Argumentum.al
